pernoctar

to spend the night, to stay overnight

verb pehr-nok-TAHR Rare

Origin: Latin pernoctare (per- + nox, night)

Usage Note

Pernoctar is a formal or administrative verb used in hotel registrations, travel reports, and tourism statistics (número de pernoctaciones = number of overnight stays). In everyday speech a traveler would more likely say quedarse a dormir or dormir en. The noun pernoctación appears frequently in tourism data.

Examples

"Los turistas pernoctaron en un hotel rural."

Natural Translation

The tourists spent the night at a rural hotel.

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